re: #1 Dave In Austin

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I agree that Sanders, if he is going to run nationally as a Democrat, should be a formal member of the Democratic Party.

It always seemed extremely important to me that a candidate running have a party affiliation. That generally used to mean that the candidate represented a core set of values, and had been vetted. Thus the voters already knew a lot about the candidate even if the candidate was new to them.

It seems to me that this was the major failing of the Republican Party in 2016. It did not vet Trump in a traditional sense. And is paying dearly for that failure. (Of course, so is the country as a whole.)

Sanders is a lesser example of this, as he has been known to and worked with the Democrats for many years. However, he should not be allowed to be a Schrodenger’s Democrat.

On a second note, I do wonder how many loud Twitter Bernie-Bots are actual people, and who actually support Bernie. There does seem to be a lot of other possible motives out there.